s’mores bars

I can always tell when it’s getting close to the time for Chelsea to come home because I start getting e-mails with links to sites like this. And this.

Chelsea loves to bake when she’s home. She has a knack for picking recipes that are completely irresistible, and before I know what’s hit me, I’m running to the store to buy copious amounts of confectioner’s sugar, cream cheese, multi-colored sprinkles or – on her most recent trip home – Fluff.

Chelsea knows that I love s’mores – in almost any way, shape or form. So when she sent me a recipe for s’mores bars, I was in. Way in.

These bars are DELICIOUS – super easy to make, and the perfect proportion of graham cracker-y crust to gooey marshmallow filling to melted chocolate layer.

We made these the day before she returned to school, so they’d be fresh to bring back for her friends. Frankly, I was thrilled that they didn’t hang around any longer than that – I don’t know that I could have resisted. I hope you feel the same.

Press half of dough into pan. Break up chocolate bar and space pieces evenly over top of dough. Dollop marshmallow creme over chocolate and spread to cover completely.

Take remaining dough, and on a piece of wax or parchment paper, pat into a square slightly smaller than your baking pan (use the pan as a guide to gauge size and shape). Gently invert dough onto your hand, peel away the paper and place dough on top of marshmallow creme. Spread dough gently out toward the edges of the pan.

This delicious recipe brought to you by Sheri Silverhttp://sherisilver.com/2011/04/10/smores-bars/

Full disclosure: As the bars were baking, I sat down to transfer the ingredient weights to the recipe (why do I measure in weights? Read here.) To my horror, I realized that we forgot the granulated sugar! This is what the original batch looked like:

They weren’t all that bad (come to think of it, there were none left by the end of the day…….), but could not compare to the correct version. Chelsea felt that we should share our failures in equal measure to our successes and I had to agree.

So I made these today for our picnic. We have a burn ban do this as close as we can get. Turned out great but I want to clarify using salted butter and adding salt was too salty so I recommend to use unwanted butter or at least omit the salt.